Lifestyle & Reference

AnyList for Recipes

• Description: Recipe collection and grocery shopping list app for Mac and iOS; clips recipes from the web and manages shopping.
• Price: Freemium

Calibre (ebook manager)

• Description: Free and open-source ebook manager by Kovid Goyal; supports format conversion, metadata editing, and library management across all platforms.
• Price: Free / Open Source

Cronica

• Description: Free donation-ware media tracker for Mac and iOS for discovering and tracking movies and TV shows; no usage limits.
• Price: Free (donationware)

Getting the Most from Ebooks

• Description: Complete workflow for building, curating, and reading an ebook collection using mostly free tools.
• Price: Mostly Free
• Workflow Tips: Yes — full ebook workflow from acquisition to reading.

Geofency

• Description: Location-based time tracking app with good privacy policies; logs time spent at locations automatically.
• Price: Paid

If You Need to Bake a Cake — Get Mela

• Description: Comparison review of four recipe management apps (Paprika, AnyList, Crouton, Mela) with Mela coming out on top.
• Price: Paid (Mela), varies for others

Libation

• Description: Free and open-source audiobook downloader and DRM converter for Audible purchases; preserves content you paid for.
• Price: Free / Open Source

MacTracker

• Description: Free comprehensive database of every Apple product with full historical specifications.
• Price: Free

Mela Recipe Manager

• Description: Winner of the author's recipe app comparison; clean interface, web clipping, and good iOS/Mac integration.
• Price: Paid

Sequel Entertainment Database

• Description: Personal database for tracking TV and movies; compared with Sofa Time, ReelGood, IMDB, JustWatch, and Trakt.
• Price: Paid

Streaks

• Description: Classic Apple Design Award-winning habit tracker; creates up to 12 daily habits with streak tracking.
• Price: Paid

Use Calibre to Back Up Kindle Books

• Description: Time-sensitive how-to on using Calibre to download Kindle content before Amazon removed the download option.
• Price: Free / Open Source
• Workflow Tips: Yes — step-by-step Kindle backup workflow.

Yonks

• Description: iOS app that works as a standalone app on Apple Silicon Macs; counts days since or until events with clean design.
• Price: Paid